Nice to see the folks at MAD still remember H.E.R.O....

... and they bring up something I almost forgot. Long before DC and Marvel were planning gay weddings and retconning gay characters into their superhero universes, artists Leonard Kirk, John Van Fleet and I (with the help of editor Peter Tomasi) told a transgender storyline in the pages of H.E.R.O. issues 12, 13 and 14.

Joe, you were truly a pioneer!

Here's the image from the Mad blog...


And here's the link. You'll have to click on it to get the final joke those six boxes are building up to, though you really should be able to figure it out yourself.

Special thanks to my old small press compadre J. Kevin Carrier for alerting me to this bit of comedy.